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Originally Posted by kesh about 75 to 100 pounds for cultural acceptance, 105 to 140 pounds for health and up to 220 pounds for cruiserweight smackdown wrestling |
lol.
Unless you're extremely large or small framed or are an athlete with a ton of muscle, the BMI guidelines should work. It's not like they're giving a specific weight you're supposed to be. The range of healthy weights is large enough to accommodate most frames and body compositions. The weights given above are pretty accurate for someone 5'3. A variance of 35 lbs is not exactly too specific to count body frame and muscle mass and all the things people bitch about the bmi guidelines not accounting for. If you're very small framed, you should probably be on the lower end, and if you're near the upper end you may be overweight. If you're very large framed, you should be near the upper end, and if you're 105 then you could possibly be too thin for your body. It's common sense. But you can't just weigh whatever you want to weigh and call it healthy. If you're a grown adult and you're not built especially large or small and you're not an athlete with a huge amount of muscle mass, chances are your healthy weight range is somewhere in there.